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1
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What are the TWO different types of R.E

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Direct- Feeling of making contact with God

Indirect- Inherent experience of God

2
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Name and describe 7 types of R.E according to CAROLINE FRANKS DAVIES in “The Evidential Force of Religion”

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1- Awareness - seeing God’s work in creation
2- Quasi- sensory - Vision/ Audio experience from God
3- Numinous - Overwhelming
4- Regenerative - Compulsion to convert
5- Mystical - Sense of ultimate reality and unity with God
6- Revelatory - Receiving enlightenment from God
7- Interprative - Having prayers answered

3
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What does ANDREW GREELY say about R.E

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Creates feeling of inner peace, compassion for other & sense of joy

4
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What does H.D LEWIS say about R.E (quote)

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‘Not just a feeling.. but a conviction… that something must be”

5
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Who coined the phrase numinous

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RUDOLPH OTTO

6
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What is OTTO’s saying about R.E (latin phrase)

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Mysterium (evokes silence) tremendum (terror) et fascinas (merciful & gracious)

7
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Define Propositional & Non- Propositional R.E

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Propositional- God communicates divine message

Non- Propositional- Non verbal, visions, divine inspiation

8
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What were events at Fatima

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  • 1917 in Portugal
  • Mary appeared to 3 children, given visions of future
  • 70,000 people say ‘sun dancing’
9
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When was the Toronto Blessing

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1994

10
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What is suffism

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Mystical experience within ISLAM

11
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What does PAUL TILLICH say about R.E

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Two Stages:

1) Event
2) Special understanding of event

12
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What are the 4 characteristics of RE according to WILLIAM JAMES in “Varieties of Religious Experience”

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1) Ineffability- defies description
2) Noetic Quality- Revelation of universal truths
3) Transiency- brief but important
4) Passivity- Feeling of being taken over

13
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What does Jonathan Edwards refer to RE

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  • Religious AFFECTION

- Evoke radical change, over long period of time

14
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Explain 3 reasons to support RE according to SWINBURNE in “Is there a God?”

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1) Reasonable to support that God would interact with his creation.
2) PRINCIPLE OF CREDULITY- Should trust our senses
3) PRINCIPLE OF TESTIMONY- Should believe what others say is true

15
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What is the HISTORICAL ARGUMENT

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Experiences of KEY individuals must be true

16
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What is the CUMULATIVE ARGUMENT

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Volume of numbers

17
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What is VARDY’S critique of RE (and ALL theistic arguments)

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Dependent upon one’s presuppositions

18
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What does JOHN HICK say about RE & who supports him

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  • May be easily interpreted another way

- Dawkins (Darwinian world is simpler)

19
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Who says that events can be ‘see as’ different (Rabbit Duck)

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WITTGENSTEIN